Introduction
Welcome
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The new Photoshop CC 2017 interface
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16. Color Range and Focus Area
The best in automated selections
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Introducing the Color Range command
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Customizing a Color Range selection
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Localized Color Clusters and Detect Faces
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Selecting a real-world photographic object
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Cleaning up with the Wand and Brush tools
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Refining your mask to absolute perfection
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Shading the airplane to match the sky
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Infusing the airplane with sky colors
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Adding a custom Motion Blur effect
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Adding a rocket plume
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Introducing the Focus Area command
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Using the Focus Area tool
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Cleaning up a jagged Focus Area mask
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Finessing hair and other details
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17. Layer Masks and Edge Refinement
Compositing like a pro
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Static selection vs. dynamic layer mask
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Perfecting mask edges with the Smudge tool
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White reveals, black conceals
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Real-world layer masking
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Combining multiple passes of Color Range
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Painting away gaps in a layer mask
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Making your mask the best it can be
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Feather and Density = even better hair
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Introducing the Select and Mask command
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The Global Refinements settings
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Edge Detection and Smart Radius
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Refine Edge Brush and Decontaminated Colors
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Turning day into night with Camera Raw
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Blending hair into a nighttime sky
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Bringing back Refine Mask
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18. Scale, Rotate, Skew, and Warp
Meet the transformations
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Introducing the Free Transform command
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Skewing and distorting a layer
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Bending and otherwise warping a layer
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Creating a cheerful bat-faced moon
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Real-world scaling and compositing
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Quick-and-dirty layer masking
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Transform and duplicate in one operation
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Removing the color from a layer
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Transforming a selection outline
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Repeating one or more transformations
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Transforming and warping text
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Filling text with a warped gradient
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19. Smart Objects
Indestructible envelopes
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Three ways to create a smart object
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Applying nondestructive transformations
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Applying nondestructive distortions
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Masking smart objects
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Editing the contents of a smart object
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Applying editable smart adjustments
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Applying and blending smart filters
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Editing a filter mask
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Applying Camera Raw as a smart filter
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Opening a Camera Raw smart object
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Two ways to duplicate a smart object
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Protecting editable text
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Using nested smart objects
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Editing text inside a nested smart object
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Pasting smart objects from Illustrator
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Applying Photoshop effects to Illustrator art
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Troubleshooting Illustrator smart objects
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20. Image Reconstruction
Restoring missing details
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"Uncropping" a photo by expanding the canvas
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Using the Content-Aware Scale command
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Restoring a missing photographic element
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Fitting an image to a custom print size
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Applying an image stack mode
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Combining a stack mode with spot healing
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Erasing people with the Median mode
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Blurring away registration problems
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Auto-blending multiple depths of field
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Auto-blending with more flexibility
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21. Liquifying an Image
Perfecting the human form
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Introducing the Liquify filter
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Using the Pucker and Bloat tools
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The Twirl, Push, and Smooth tools
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Using Liquify’s masking tools
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Face-Aware Liquify
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Special face-recognition scenarios
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Making direct edits with the Face tool
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Resetting any and all facial features
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22. Vector Shapes
Photoshop’s alternative to pixels
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How vector-based shape layers work
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Adjusting the roundness of a rectangle
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Creating a dashed or dotted border
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Drawing and aligning custom shapes
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Creating your own custom shape
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Designing a custom shape in Illustrator
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Selecting, modifying, and combining shapes
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Duplicating and centering shapes
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Centering a star inside a circle
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Beveling your shapes with Pillow Emboss
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Combining shapes into a smart object
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Applying lighting and photorealism
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Converting text to a shape layer
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Editing the shape of a character of type
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23. Blend Modes
Blending layers like a pro
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Normal and Dissolve
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Using the Dissolve mode
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Multiply and the other darken modes
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Using the Multiply mode
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Screen and the other lighten modes
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Using the Screen mode
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Using the Dodge and Burn modes
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Overlay and the contrast modes
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Using the Overlay and Soft Light modes
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Difference, Exclusion, Subtract, and Divide
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Capturing the differences between images
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Hue, Saturation, Color, and Luminosity
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Blend mode keyboard shortcuts
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The Brush tool blend modes
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The remarkable "Fill Opacity Eight"
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Blend If: This Layer and Underlying Layer
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24. Layers Effects
Depth, contour, and texture
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Applying a Drop Shadow
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Working with Fill Opacity
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Applying an Inner Shadow
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Working with Global Light
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Creating blurry, spray paint-style type
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Creating your own custom Contour
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Introducing Bevel & Emboss
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Combining multiple layer effects
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Copying effects between layers and groups
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Assigning multiple strokes to a single layer
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Combining multiple drop shadows
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25. Levels and Curves
Mastering the histogram
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Correcting an image automatically
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Customizing a Levels adjustment
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Previewing clipped pixels
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Understanding the Gamma value
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Making channel-by-channel adjustments
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Cleaning up scanned line art
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Cleaning up complex mechanicals
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Quicker layer masks with Levels
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Introducing the Curves adjustment
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The Curves Targeted Adjustment tool
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Assigning shortcuts to adjustment layers
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26. Lens Correction and Perspective Warp
What to do when everything is crooked
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Introducing Lens Correction
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Distortion, aberrations, and vignette
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Adjusting angle and perspective
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Using the Perspective Warp command
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Fine-tuning your perspective adjustment
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Evening out color and lighting
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27. Advanced Camera Raw
Photoshop’s most powerful plug-in returns
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Automatic lens correction and Defringe
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Auto-correcting a JPEG image
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Auto-correcting an undocumented photo
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Auto-Straighten, Transform, and Upright
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Using the Tone Curve graphs
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Painting with the Adjustment Brush
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Using the Graduated Filter tool
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Using the Radial Filter tool
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Dehaze and Post-Crop Vignetting
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28. Black and White Photography
Shoot in color, convert to black & white
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Three ways to convert to grayscale
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Introducing the Channel Mixer
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Mixing a custom black-and-white image
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Creating an infrared/snow effect
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Introducing the Black & White adjustment
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Customizing a Black & White adjustment
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Tinting an image
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Blending black-and-white with color
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Convert to Grayscale in Camera Raw
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Split Toning in Camera Raw
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29. Duotones and Colorization
Infusing black and white with color
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Quick-and-dirty colorization
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Creating a professional quality sepia tone
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The best of the best: Gradient Map
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Loading my free, tailor-made gradients
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Designing your own custom quadtone
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Creating psychedelic arbitrary maps
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30. Sharpening Details
How sharpening works
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Introducing Unsharp Mask
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Blending your sharpening effect
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Reining in sharpness with a filter mask
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Introducing Smart Sharpen
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Remove: Lens Blur and Reduce Noise
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Preventing shadow/highlight clipping
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Compensating for camera shake
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Further compensating with Emboss
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Sharpening with the High Pass filter
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Painting with the Sharpen tool
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Conclusion
Until next time
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